... they give information- . History was not simply recorded by dramatic and (often biased) paintings of epic scenes, and descriptive words no longer seemed sufficient alone. Marcel Proust once remarked that snapshots had an essentially mournful nature because they were evidence for former disappeared realities: "A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of ... ...

• Word Count: 3561
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography